{"id":2386,"date":"2009-07-27T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/i_dont_mourn_th\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T17:53:43","slug":"i_dont_mourn_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/i_dont_mourn_th\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Mourn The Death of Cursive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Suddath has an article at Time.com entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1912419-1,00.html\">Mourning the Death of Handwriting<\/a>.&#8221;  At issue is not the act of writing by hand (though that is in decline too) but rather writing in so-called <em>script<\/em> or <em>cursive<\/em>.<br \/>\nSuddath identifies 1980 as a line of demarcation&#8211;people born after that have rougher handwriting and almost never write in cursive.  She attributes the decline to a shift in educational emphasis and the rise of the computer.<br \/>\nI started school just before 1980.  Early Radio Shack computers were just starting to rear their ugly heads at the school, and we still had to use cursive in handwriting class.  I hated it.  I never understood <em>why<\/em> people would prefer to use cursive instead of the print that was universally used in books.<br \/>\nThe only rationale that made sense to me was the explanation that cursive is faster to use, since you don&#8217;t keep having to lift your pen off the paper.  But in my case, it wasn&#8217;t any faster, just uglier.  My cursive is so bad that I even have a hard time reading it.  That may be one of the reasons I never liked the format&#8211;my writing is scary to look at.<br \/>\nSo I shed no tears for the disappearance of funky <em>Z<\/em>s and curly <em>Q<\/em>s.  Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/i_dont_mourn_th\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to I Don&#8217;t Mourn The Death of Cursive\"><p>Claire Suddath has an article at Time.com entitled &#8220;Mourning the Death of Handwriting.&#8221; At issue is not the act of writing by hand (though that is in decline too) but rather writing in so-called script or cursive. Suddath identifies 1980 as a line of demarcation&#8211;people born after that have rougher handwriting and almost never write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}